Novelty Yarn Fun and a "Scary" Rant

So the other night I was working on a project with novelty yarn and was about 1/2 way through the project. I was watching TV while I was knitting and all of a sudden I realized that I had cast off the whole row instead of just the first 4 stitches. I tried to tink (un-knit) it, but that yarn is so confusing. I pulled the needle out and tried to loop it all back on, but I know I had picked up more stitches than I should have. I knit part way and then went to sleep. Last night I picked it up and forgot I was half way through a row and pulled the needle out! Augh!

So I decided it was just too much of a mess and frogged (unraveled) the whole thing and started again. Bah! What can you do? It's a gift for someone, you can't pass them a jumbled mess, even if the yarn will hide most of it, right?

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While I was eating my lunch today, I was reading an article about the Vancouver-based sportswear company Oqoqo which is an offspring of the well-known company, lululemon. The article says the company stuffs a 'corporate manifesto' into each shopper's bag to encourage them with phrases such as "do one thing a day that scares you". Now how exactly does one go about that? Saying no to your boss? Stepping out in traffic? Running that extra 1/2 mile despite thinking you might be having a heart attack? Talking to a stranger?

Many scary things are scary for a reason - because they are unsafe or just not a wise thing to do. Walking up to strangers in Vancouver is not only scary, it can be stupid too. Never backing up your computer is very scary (among a whole bunch of other things). And can a person really keep up performing scary things on a daily basis? What scary things should you be doing on a daily basis?

Now I realize this was just a light hearted comment which perhaps the majority of shoppers ignore, but how do we know what advice to follow and what we shouldn't? And do people care when they find out the person giving them their advice has fallen too? Take Dr. Phil for example, allegedly he's on the brink of getting fired for visiting (or perhaps, ambushing) Britney Spears in the hospital. If he is fired, will people burn all his books and stop watching his re-runs, would they feel hurt or even betrayed? Or do people just move on and forget because as fast as some things come into our lives, even faster they are forgotten or replaced?

Perhaps just believing everything you see on TV each day would satisfy 'doing one thing a day that scares you". Could it really be as simple as that?